> Bauer-Arndt-Gingrich, Gr-Eng Lex of NT, cites a couple> of articles on the etymology of "magos," particularly> one by Nyberg and another by A. D. Nock. The word,> which is Old Persian, went into Armenian as "mag."> You will find more etymological data on this in> H. Huebschmann, Armenische Grammatik, p. 195, #410.> Adjarian, Etymological Dictionary of Armenian> (in Armenian, I am afraid), says it is a Pahlavi> word -- ie, Middle Persian. Since the word does> occur in Old Persian, see R. Kent, Old Persian (1950)> 201 - "member of a priestly order of Media", Adjarian> cannot be quite right.> E. Benveniste may also say something in one or two> of his numerous publications on Persian-Armenian> or Indo-European etymology.> > hope this is of some help.> > Edward G. Mathews, Jr.> University of Scranton> Scranton, PA 18510>
Ed,

I have yet to go home and check out this info in BAG
(Bauer-Arndt-Gingrich). If this info is of any help, then please
(everybody) disregard my previous post I sent out earlier to the
discussion groups listed above.